Lucretius on Life and Death

Lucretius (ca. 55 BCE) left us the most extensive exposition of the happiness philosophy of Epicurus we have remaining from the ancient world, a philosophy mirrored by that of Persia’s Omar Khayyám.

W. H. Mallock brilliantly married the two in 1900, by producing a short poetic summary of each section of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, written in the same poetic meter as The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.